Exam 2
Specifying the instrument for each part in the musical composition
Giovanni Gabrieli came to be celebrated for what artistic contribution?
Mannerist
what term most accurately describes Parmigianino's Madonna of the long neck?
Loyola
who was the founding figure of the society of Jesus?
Alexander Pope
"Whatever is, is right" reflects the philosophic optimism of which Enlightenment thinker?
Greuze
All of the following figures are generally considered painters of the Rococo style EXCEPT who?
The corruption of science by superstition and theology
In his Novum Organum, what did Bacon object to?
Violins
In the seventeenth-century, Cremona, Italy, was the world center for the manufacture of what instrument?
Disproportionately elongated the body of his female subject
In what way did Ingres' Grande Odalisque deviate from the principles of Neoclassical art?
Clarity and formal structure
Neoclassical art and classical music share what characteristics?
The novel
Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson were both noted eighteenth-century writers of which new literary form?
It was the largest compendium of knowledge produced in the West.
What description of Diderot's Encyclopedia is accurate?
pursuit of pleasure
What was the predominant theme of Rococo paintings?
Voltaire
Which author satirized the philosophic optimism of Enlightenment figures in Candide and other writings?
Handel
Which composer is associated with the birth of the English oratorio?
They often included musical interludes
Which description about the plays of Molière is accurate?
Galileo
Which figure famously recanted his scientific theories in 1633 after having been put on trial for heresy?
spiritual exercises
Which influential handbook reflected the mysticism and militancy of the Jesuit order?
theme and variations
Which of the following is NOT one of the three parts of traditional sonata form?
Hogarth
Which of the following men was NOT a significant figure in the movement known as the Scientific Revolution?
It served as a model for the American Revolution that shortly followed.
Which of the following statements about the French Revolution is FALSE?
Poussin
Who was a leading figure in the evolution of academic art?
Neoclassical Principles
Academic art, as envisioned by Louis XIV and his followers, depended primarily on what element?
Lutheran chorales
Bach's cantatas were largely based on what source?
Spain
Both El Greco and Velázquez served in the courts of which country?
Puritans
In seventeenth-century England, the influential Calvinists who called for churchly reform were known as ______.
still life painting
The Dutch painter Maria van Oosterwyck excelled in which genre?
Deism
The belief in a mechanistic universe fashioned by a Creator God who does not directly intervene in its affairs is called ______.
Strict compositional symmetry
The term, "baroque" in painting comprises all of the following EXCEPT which feature?
libretto
The text of an opera is found in its ______.
Advancement of major-minor tonality
What characteristic marked the Baroque era as a turning point in Western music?
Sympathetic, flesh-and-blood characters
What characteristic separated the operas of Mozart from his those of his predecessors?
It is theatrical in presentation.
What description of Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is accurate?
A premise he could not doubt
What does Descartes' proposition, "I think, therefore I am," demonstrate?
"New method"
What does the title of Francis Bacon's landmark work, Novum Organum, mean?
Dramatic exterior
What feature of Wren's design for Saint Paul's Cathedral in London reflects its Baroque style?
Fall of Adam and Eve
What is the subject of Milton's landmark epic, Paradise Lost?
Pizzicato
What musical technique, introduced by Monteverdi, involves a performer plucking a stringed instrument that is normally bowed?
Ordinary Life
What scenes are typically depicted in genre painting?
love-intimacy
What subject was common to both Rococo art and Hindu art?
Idols
What was Francis Bacon's term for the false dogmas or teachings that hindered clear thinking?
Legitimate government required the consent of the governed.
What was a principle of John Locke's?
It contradicted Scripture.
What was a reason that both Protestants and Catholics opposed the heliocentric theory?
minimal ornamentation
Which is NOT a characteristic of Italian baroque churches?
Franz Joseph Haydn
Which nineteenth-century composer, who wrote the piece nicknamed "The Surprise," is often called the "father of the symphony"?
group portraiture
Which of the genres in which Rembrandt worked was the most lucrative for the Dutch painter?
Noblewomen
Who were often the organizers of the French salon, the center of intellectual debate?
Palestrina
Whose "music of mystic serenity" captured the conservative quality of the Catholic Reformation?
Bernini
One of the most influential Baroque artists was ________, the designer of the piazza in front of St. Peter's Basilica.
David's Oath of the Horatii
The fusion of art and politics that exalted the ideal of service and sacrifice to one's country is exemplified by which landmark?